| Journal: | Revista brasileira de ciencia avicola |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000279213 |
| ISSN: | 1516-635X |
| Authors: | Pelicano, Elizabete Regina Leone1 Souza, Pedro Alves de Souza, Hirasilva Borba Alves de Oba, Alexandre Norkus, E.A Kodawara, L.M Lima, T.M.A. de |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Faculdade de Ciencias Agrarias e Veterinarias, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Season: | Sep-Dic |
| Volumen: | 5 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 207-214 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Nota breve o noticia |
| Approach: | Experimental |
| English abstract | The present work evaluated the effect of different probiotics on carcass and meat quality of broilers. One thousand and fifty male Cobb chicks were distributed at one day of age in a randomized design with 3 x 2 + 1 factorial arrangement (3 probiotics, 2 levels of probiotics in drinking water and 1 negative control group), using 5 replications with 30 birds. Carcass yield was higher (p<0.05) in control birds. Nevertheless, the groups fed with probiotics showed higher (p<0.01) leg yield at 45 days of age. There was a significant decrease in color (lightness) and increase in pH of breast muscle 5 hours after slaughter in the probiotics treated birds. In the sensory analysis, meat flavor and general aspect 72 hours after slaughter were better when probiotics were added in both water and diet. There were no differences in water holding capacity, cooking loss and shearing force among different probiotics or between them and the control. Thus, meat quality was better when probiotics were fed in the water and diet instead of only in the diet. Nevertheless, carcass and meat quality showed no alteration when the control group was compared to birds fed with probiotics, except for leg yield improvement in the latter |
| Disciplines: | Medicina veterinaria y zootecnia, Química |
| Keyword: | Aves de corral, Química de alimentos, Pollos de engorda, Probióticos, Calidad, Carne, Organolepsis |
| Keyword: | Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry, Chemistry, Poultry, Food chemistry, Broilers, Probiotics, Quality, Meat, Organolepsis |
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